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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Little Gidding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Bear fruit.
(b) Calcify.
(c) Become sugar.
(d) Solidify.

2. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Affected nonchalance.
(b) Pointed scrutiny.
(c) A curious glance.
(d) A brave face.

3. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?
(a) Invocation.
(b) Annihilation.
(c) Incarnation.
(d) Annunciation.

4. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The tulips.
(b) The daisies.
(c) The daffodils.
(d) The roses.

5. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) The petty contractors'.
(b) Nobody's.
(c) Their own.
(d) The Director's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

2. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?

3. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

4. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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